To be fair, YT only obfuscates their algorithms because there’s SO much money to be made in gaming the system. They have to change their algos constantly in order to keep the SEO crowd from completely destroying user experience.
And yes, it’s unpleasant that a “coming out” video was demonetised - but that was stated as being due to an error in captioning leading to a flagging. YT is so huge that you have to use algorithmic flagging of some kind to keep up with the super-firehose of content continually hitting their servers, and if you use algorithms, you’re gonna have an error rate. I feel bad for ya’, son, but it’s YT’s platform - if you want a platform where everything is manually reviewed, it’s out there… But they’re gonna take a LOT bigger cut (of a much smaller revenue stream) if you do that. Actually not a great deal, when you think about it.
I think a lot of the people complaining are really upset about the fact that YT isn’t the Wild West anymore, and that they’re having to act a lot more like “classical” media companies to be able to produce content and utilize YT’s platform for it. I mean… Yeah. Everyone said that would happen when YT got big and dominant enough. And right now it’s really not worth it to try and pull out for creators, because they’d have to take virtually every content producer with them, otherwise the ones that stay behind would just absorb their viewership and nothing would change.
